WordPress Exploit Scanner 0.1 has been released, in response to a comment on a recent thread about old versions of WordPress sites being hacked. You may have spotted this in your WordPress dashboard. Problem is, it only works for v2.5.1+, so it will only be useful in keeping you safe going forward. I just installed it on a basic WordPress site with K2, and got the following results:
Suspect Plugins
These plugin files look suspect. Please verify they are files you uploaded.
- ../themes/k2/app/includes/k2-sbm-loader.php
No suspicious posts or comments found
Hooray! No suspicious text found in your posts or comments tables!
For a brand new plugin that’s not bad, but throwing a false negative on such a popular theme is something that will need to be addressed. I’ll be keeping an eye on this one.
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From the “could be a big deal” department: iGoogle will be rolling out social features to its personalized home page service. However, its unclear whether it will amount to much more than mixing some gmail features, including google talk chat, with its increasingly popular gadgets. PC Mag has more. Where’s the open social integration?
Now this is cool. Media Temple, in partnership with Parallels, is going to soon be offering XServe virtual hosting with the ability to scale up to a full XServe’s worth of power and server resources. Offering everything an XServe has, including serving multiple web sites (including built-in wikis and blogs, whatever that means), iCal Server, Directory, and Time Machine backups - I’m hoping that it will prove to be useful for small group ware work and personal site hosting.
You can apply for the Private Beta here.
In Andrew Keen’s book, The Cult of the Amateur… “makes the case that the internet, particularly Web 2.0 with all of it’s socialization and democratization, is making us all idiots.” Read a passionate review of it here. Audible has it and I will surely be spending this month’s credit on it.
One of my photos was featured in the Chicago City Guide published by Schmapp. Well, they just launched an iPhone version of the Schmapp Chicago Guide. They’re sniffing the user agent string, so If you are using a desktop computer, this link will show exactly how the photo is displayed and credited in the iPhone version of their guide. The photo they featured is this one I took of the Allerton Hotel sign:
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